List, Out of over the 200 people that I have helped. Two had found meteorites
and I verified them in person. Two other kept sending me wrongs, but were
willing to learn and listen; The one finally a piece of the Old Woman and Gold
Basin meteorite. The second, no only did he find a meteorite but his wife and
son each found OCs.
Plenty of nutjobs out there but sometime some of the persons contacting me
have paid their dues and listened, studied and spent the time to finally have
success. The "believers" will never take advice and always think that they
have something RARE. I just explain the I cannot help a "believer" and ask
them not to call me again.
Batting 4/200.
PS' Save your time and ask them to do some study and look for the most common
instead of rare mets....
Dirk Ross...Tokyo
On Friday, March 19, 2021, 11:15:06 PM GMT+9, Michael Mulgrew via
Meteorite-list <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
Tell them to have it classified by a laboratory, and then ignore them.
Chances are these types won't even listen to a laboratory, but it takes the
onus of reply off of you.
-Michael in so. Cal.
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On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 1:17 PM tracy latimer via Meteorite-list
<meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
I've been fielding a lot of e-mails this week from someone who is certain that
a meteorite nearly hit their house. The picture they sent me is of what looks
like a weathered lava bomb that likely washed free of an upslope location and
rolled/fell/bounced into his yard. They found it the following day after a
"loud thump that shook the house", then picked it up and hosed it off, so don't
have any pictures of it in situ, just a shallow hole with muddy splash marks.
I've told them several times that it doesn't look like a meteorite: vesicles,
not regmaglypts; no fusion crust, nothing that identifies it as a likely
meteorite, but they don't want to hear it. Anyone who has dealt with a
persistent "meteorite" finder, how did you eventually get them to listen to
reason/experience -- or not?
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